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In “They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy,” author Paul Street describes how John Carpenter prefigured our present moment when all conspires to make resistance seem futile and alternatives, non-existent, …

Anand Gopal walks readers through the looking glass of US empire into the complex and personal history and impact of the war in Afghanistan.

Aviva Chomsky explores how prejudice and the exploitation of inexpensive labor increasingly shaped US immigration policy in an excerpt from her book,

The profit-driven goals of neoliberal education policies are antithetical to progressive goals to educate productive participants in democratic culture.

In the Progressive Pick book, ‘Badass Teachers Unite,’ Mark Naison points out that school reform policies scapegoat teachers and represent a brilliant tactic to avoid dealing with the real …

Important issues are buried in the fog of manufactured crises, designed to stir popular sentiment but actually legitimizing policies that benefit the wealthy and hurt working- and middle-class communities, …

There are extraordinary elements in the present US policy in Iraq and Syria that are attracting surprisingly little attention.

Eduardo Galeano's book, “Mirrors” is a history of humanity in 366 episodes, from our first myths to late last night.

If we want to change the United States' senseless addiction to incarceration, the best possible place to start is transforming how our justice system treats our children.

In this excerpt from Max Blumenthal's “Goliath,” the author reports on an Israeli attack on Gaza, one of several such IDF campaigns known in Israel as “mowing the lawn.”